The Transition movement is demonstrating how successful and inspiring community‐based initiatives can envision and take practical positive steps to a better, healthier, and more fun future, making local communities more sustainable and resilient. Transition Universities use
the same core values and tools as the rest of the Transition movement to create positive empowering change within the university community.
This guide serves as an introduction to what Transition Universities have looked like and achieved so far. We call them Transition Universities for simplicity’s sake, but recognise that they can be called something other than Transition, and don’t necessarily have to take place
in a university, but in any tertiary education institution.
This guide is written for anyone within such a setting who wants to take positive practical action on sustainability.
So whether you’re a student, academic staff member, a librarian, post-doc or head of catering
(or better still, perhaps you are all reading this together), this guide is for you. We hope it
proves an inspiring and catalysing read.
This short video, by Daihachi Yagi, gives a great taste of some the activities of Transition University of St Andrews.
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